May 28, 2004

Back in the day, I was a huge fan of the Atari game "Kaboom." I'd play for hours, moving the revolving joystick back and forth in order to deactivate the falling bombs with water buckets. Thanks to Groovz.com, I can now play this classic game on the Web.
(By the Way)

"It takes a woman to outwit the devil."
--Irish Proverb

May 26, 2004

Seth Kihlstadius, a quiet 18-year-old high school student in Two Harbors, Minn., always planned to become a fishing guide after graduation. But when he fell and hit his head at a post-prom party, those future goals were forever lost. He died on May 21.

Kihlstadius's story doesn't end there, though. Because his mother consented to organ donation, five people will have vastly better lives.

"Someone is going to have heart-transplant surgery and wake up with a terrible desire to go bow hunting," his mother Wendy Kihlstadius said.

The Blog of Death honors the recently deceased with links to obituaries of the famous, infamous and interesting unknowns. People may die, but on the Web, their legacy lives on.
 

May 25, 2004

A fierce and loyal follower of Poe and the other gothic authors, you LOVE to instill a sense of revulsion and somewhat fear in your readers. You love to poke their brains with logic dealing with the darker side of the human mind and character. A truly surprising individual.

What's your Writing Style?
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* You have a love of travel and adventure.
* You also have a very strong sense of fair play and want justice.
* You have much enthusiasm with a driving attitude toward achievement in life.
* You have a discriminating nature coupled with perseverance and pride.
* You can be quite inventive and quite curious.
* You are a hard worker when you make up your mind to do a job.
* Your independence and freedom are important to you.
* You have a talent for working with people on a one to one basis.
* Your privacy is important to you.
* You have a rich inner life.
* Take advantage of all opportunities.
* You must develop your creativity and talents.
* You are determined to prove yourself to others.
* You have a need to be up front.
* You have a diplomatic flair to your nature.
* Equality and fairness are important to you.
* You have good recuperative abilities.
* You are a person who cannot tolerate being misunderstood.
* You enjoy a challenge.
* You are determined.

What does your name mean?

I miss you more every day.

May 24, 2004

A new Jaded Writings column has been posted. This week, I discuss the importance of water safety.

* Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton - 5/25/1803
* Ralph Waldo Emerson - 5/25/1803
* Robert Ludlum - 5/25/27
* Raymond Carver - 5/25/38
* Jamaica Kincaid - 5/25/49
* Walt Whitman - 5/26/1819
* Herman Wouk - 5/27/15
* Tony Hillerman - 5/27/25
* Robert L. Ferrier - 5/27/41
* Ian Fleming - 5/27/08
* G.K. Chesteron - 5/29/1874
* T.H. White - 5/29/06
* Cheryl Dyson - 5/29/66

May 23, 2004

Joe Mozingo, a reporter for The Miami Herald, has written one of the most horrifying stories about Haiti I've ever read. The pictures that accompany the article provide a glimpse at the women (and children) who've been repeatedly violated by evil.

The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, says the Bush administration violated federal law by producing TV news segments that portrayed the new Medicare law as a boon to elderly Americans. The GAO said the videos, were a form of "covert propaganda" because the government was not identified as the source of the materials.

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